Looking beyond space and time to cope with quantum theory Physicists have proposed an experiment that could force us to make a choice between extremes to describe the behaviour of the Universe. The proposal comes from an international team of researchers from Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and Singapore, and is published October 28 in Nature Physics. It is based on what the researchers call a 'hidden influence inequality'. This exposes how quantum predictions challenge our best understanding about the nature of space and time, Einstein's theory of relativity. "We are interested in whether we can explain the funky phenomena we observe without sacrificing our sense of things happening smoothly in space and time," says Jean-Daniel Bancal, one of the researchers behind the new result, who carried out the research at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.
Camp To Belong New York July 5-11, 2014 at Camp Chingachook : Lake George, NY About Us Camp to Belong-New York (CTB-NY) is a five-day camp for children ages 9 to 15. Hosted by Parsons Child and Family Center, the week takes place at the YMCA’s Camp Chingachgook in Lake George NY. Keep Calm and Get Excited About the Rolling Jubilee Occupy has created a Strike Debt wing, which has a new project: a Rolling Jubilee. There will be a livestream of the Debt Jubilee fundraiser tonight, starting at 8pm ET, that you can access from their webpage. It features Janeane Garofalo, Jeff Mangum from Neutral Milk Hotel, Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Lizz Winstead, and many more. You should check it out.
7.7 Earthquake Hits Where The Worlds Largest Geoengineering Experiment Took Place A 7.7 Earthquake hit the coast of British Columbia on Saturday night, and there has since been as many as 40 aftershocks today. Including one that measured 6.4 in magnitude. The quake sent many residents on the coast, fleeing for higher ground due to tsunami warnings. That where issued as far away as Hawaii. The Earthquake originated on the island of Haida Gwaii, other wise know as the Queen Charlotte Islands region. To Forgive Is Divine (Then Comes the Tax Bill) The people who brought you Occupy Wall Street have come up with an extremely clever idea: raising money to buy random citizens’ overdue debt, and then—poof!—forgive it. One day a debtor is fielding calls from a collection agency; the next day, she’s not. If this vanishing act sounds too good to be true—and it might be, but we’ll get to that—it helps to start at the beginning.
Electrosensitivity - MYSTERY IN THE SKIN MYSTERY IN THE SKINScreen dermatitis, the effect of computer work on human skin. An interview with associate professor Olle Johansson at the Experimental Dermatology Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Mr. Helge Tiainen, former head of the Nokia Consumer Electronics in Sweden once said that "The results of Olle Johansson's research could very well deeply shake the world's electronics industry, but mankind still has to know!" Some interests might feel threatened by the results of his research, but professor Johansson has been outspoken and committed to this scientific field.
Strike Debt and Rolling Jubilee: The Debate Strike Debt and Rolling Jubilee: The Debate Of the organizing strategies emerging from Occupy, few have the momentum of Strike Debt. Organizers believe that debt is what Americans hold in common; debtors must be the class that unites and fights for a fair economy beginning with the elimination of medical, housing, education, and credit card debt. It reflects the widespread attitude that made David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5000 Years so popular and the conditions that made the 99 percent Tumblr a catalog of loans and unpaid mortgages. But is debt the most powerful category around which to organize? Why organize around debt, rather than class, occupation, grievance? About the Foresight Institute Mission — promoting transformative technologies Foresight Institute is a leading think tank and public interest organization focused on transformative future technologies. Founded in 1986, its mission is to discover and promote the upsides, and help avoid the dangers, of nanotechnology, AI, biotech, and similar life-changing developments. Foresight is the primary force pushing for the kind of nanotechnology that will truly transform our future, from medicine to the environment to space settlement. This advanced form of nanotechnology has been variously called atomically precise manufacturing (APM), molecular manufacturing, or productive nanosystems, and should be distinguished from the bulk of current efforts in nanotechnology, which are focused on materials science and simple nanodevices. Foresight's mission is to:
It's the Interest, Stupid! Why Bankers Rule the World Interest charges are a strongly regressive tax that the poor pay to the rich. A public banking system could realize savings up to 40 percent - allowing taxes to be cut, services increased and market stability created - with banks feeding the economy rather than feeding off it. In the 2012 edition of Occupy Money released last week, Professor Margrit Kennedy writes that a stunning 35 percent to 40 percent of everything we buy goes to interest. This interest goes to bankers, financiers, and bondholders, who take a 35 percent to 40 percent cut of our GDP. That helps explain how wealth is systematically transferred from Main Street to Wall Street. The rich get progressively richer at the expense of the poor, not just because of "Wall Street greed," but because of the inexorable mathematics of our private banking system.
Terrence Howard walks away EBONI President Chris Hyacinthe chatted with Terrence Howard for about two hours in the Semel Theater. Terrence Howard, an Oscar-nominated actor known for roles in Hustle & Flow and Red Tails, surprised his audience in the Semel Theater Tuesday by saying that he plans to change his career focus. In an Inside the Actor’s Studio-style interview, Emerson’s Black Organization with Natural Interests President Chris Hyacinthe talked with the actor for almost two hours. They touched on acting, perseverance, and science — which Howard said is his actual passion. “I want to debunk Einstein,” Howard said with a sly grin, while the audience laughed. According to an interview with legendary film critic Roger Ebert, before being discovered as an actor, Howard studied chemical engineering during his time at the Pratt Institute, which ended its engineering program in 1993.
The TF-X Will Be the First Flying Car That Actually Works Like a Flying Car Image: The TF-X concept from Terrafugia The dawn of the flying car is nigh. A company called Terrafugia has been working to bring the first airborne sedan, the Transition, to the masses since 2006. Yesterday, it announced that it will finally deliver its first unit in 2015. Unfortunately, the clumsy Transition is really nothing like the flying cars humans have fantasized about zipping around in ever since the Jetsons. But Terrafugia also announced that it's working on an alternate model, the TF-X, that is: a vehicle that will take off vertically with rotor propellers, fly with the wings of a private jet, and drive like a street-legal sedan.